"Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men." ― E. B. White Topic(s): Men More From E. B. White "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." "Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it." "Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19." More In Men "Men have become the tools of their tools."― Henry David Thoreau "The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions."― Junius "Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."― Charles Dickens